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Title: The Mindset of a Slave

Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/the-mindset-of-a-slave|the-mindset-of-a-slave]]

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Created: 2022-08-21 12:59:13

Updated: 2022-08-31 03:00:01

Published: 2022-08-24 02:00:00

Converted: 2025-04-14T21:19:01.436611593


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1 Corinthians 7:23 “Since a great price was paid for your redemption, stop having the mindset of a slave.”\\
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In the spirit realm we were set free, redeemed from the slavery of sin, (John 8:34), by the “precious blood of Christ”, (1 Peter 1:19), shed on the cross as He became the “atoning sacrifice for our sins.” (1 John 2:2). \\
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In the natural realm, Americans have been “redeemed by a great price,” the precious blood of the patriots who fought to redeem us from the political slavery that the king of England and Parliament were trying to force on the early American colonists. Today we Americans face that same threat:\\
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The arbitrary forced entry by authorities into anyone’s home, as witnessed by recent DOJ raids on homes of concerned parents who speak out to school boards and even a past President of the United States.\\
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Taxation without representation, as recently witnessed by Congress using the reconciliation process to pass the new $700 billion “Inflation Reduction Act.”\\
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The repeated attempts by the left in Congress to prevent the ability of citizens to raise a militia to protect themselves and their families by pushing for the seizure and outlawing of all guns in the hands of private citizens, (as witnessed by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which just passed the Senate 65-33 in July – the first gun control act passed since 1994). \\
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The list of abuses by the federal government against its citizens goes on and on.\\
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We as a nation are facing the same decision that our Founding Fathers faced, do we stand up against this tyranny as they did or resign to live in slavery? \\
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“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”\\
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– Ben Franklin\\
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As for me, I will stand up against this tyranny. I will continue to pray, write, speak out against, expose, and try every legal means to put an end to this attack by those in our federal government against the God-given “unalienable rights” of American citizens. Article V of our Constitution was wisely put there by our Founders for this very purpose.\\
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George Mason, one of the Framers of our Constitution, who foresaw this time in America, insisted that a provision be added to Article V that gave the right to “propose amendments to this Constitution” not only to Congress but also “on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states…”:

> “It was George Mason, on June 11, 1787, who urged the necessity of such a provision [Amendments] saying “The plan now to be formed (the new Constitution) will certainly be defective, as the (Articles of) Confederation has been found on trial to be. Amendments therefore will be necessary, and it will be better to provide for them, in an easy, regular and Constitutional way than to trust to chance and violence. It would be improper to require the consent of the National Legislature, because they may abuse their power, and refuse their consent on that very account…”

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My fellow Americans, let’s choose the “easy, regular and constitutional way” to address our grievances with our federal government and call for a Convention of States rather “than to trust to chance and violence.”\\
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